Wonderful take on the franchise. It just don't sound that it's exploiting the original series, which was already a great quality. But it also brings great characters, designs and a beautiful animation work. And the plots are awesome! The original series always focused only on the younger audiences, so all the ghosts and monsters weren't as menacing and evil as the ones we got here.

In the first episodes it was with many of the original series on it, but it grow-up beyond being just a spin-off as far the series progressed.

Highly recommended. At least, try to watch the two-part episode "Back in the Saddle", were the main cast of the original series united with the new generation. A true heart-stopper...

Very few follow-up series ever reach the quality of the show which spore them, either the writing isn’t up to it, or the essence of the original is lost. Extreme Ghostbusters is one of those that manages to compare with the original and still remain mostly unique in itself.

Four great and well realised characters don the helm of Ecto-1, in particular there is Garrett; a rare example of a non-stereotyped disabled person. Like Athena below this carries a strong significance to me, because although I’m not physically disabled, I do have a mental disability; and quite fed up with the negative stereotyping of disabled people.

Anyway… The characters are great, but it was the storylines that enthralled me to keep watching. Dark and as imaginative as the previous shows, but maybe slightly less fun; with an absence of Peter’s quality quips to lighten the mood.

The animation is of high quality throughout, with a bold graphic art style that gives it an graphic novel look to the whole. The animation on Ecto-1 and the wheelchair is particular impressive considering how tricky man-made objects can be. Sound and Music is equally strong and never intrusive; yet I found myself not liking the theme tune all that much.

There is a thing that bugs me though, the first time I saw the new characters, I thought they tended to feel somewhat familiar to certain counterparts: Eduardo is the new Peter, Garrett is Ray, Roland is Winston; that sort of thing. It’s a quibble that reared its head in me when I first saw the show and one that kept cropping up in the back of my mind.

Thankfully, intentional doppelgangers or not, the show held its own and proved a worthy sequel of the original…

When this series first aired I was living in residence at Simon Fraser University. I was 20 years old, or thereabouts, and I would get up at 7am, sneak down the hall to the dorm TV room and watch this show every morning.

To understand why I devoted myself so deeply to this show you have to understand a bit about me--that I, like Garrett, spend the great majority of my time in a wheelchair. I've been physically disabled all my life and growing up, there were rarely any people in wheelchairs on TV, much less in my morning cartoon series. And if someone with a disability actually made it in as a guest spot on TV series, they were disgustingly stereotyped--either bitter-disabled-person or nauseatingly-weak-and-sweet-disabled-person.

When I first saw Extreme Ghostbusters I was absolutely thrilled with their wheelchair-bound ghostbuster. Here was a character that not only looked and sounded like a real human being--plus got to say all the best lines--but he was ghostbusting! From a wheelchair! Granted half the stuff that Garrett does with his chair is pretty physicaly implausible for a wheelchair, but still you can't say that he's anything less than a full-member of the team. The idea inspired me--inspired me so much that I got up at an insane hour every morning just to get a chance to see Garrett wheel over a wall of flames, dangle off the end of a forklift and zoom out from the newly-installed wheelchair ramp on the Ecto-1.

It's great TV--yes, even for all you able-bodied folk--and it's working to break down all the stupid stereotypes people have toward those with disabilities. You can't beat that.